Shoah
Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage.
- Director
- Claude Lanzmann
- Signature
- Craft · Drama · Tension
- Worldwide
- $20,175
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Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.
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- Worldwide gross
- $20,175
- Release date
- Apr 21, 1985
- Runtime
- 9h 26m
- MPAA rating
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- Language
- German, English
- Country
- France
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